The Southern Cross Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic...
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Look up Southern Cross in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Southern Cross or Crux is a star group visible mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. It has...
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250 mi), in 1928. The Southern Cross began life as the Detroiter, a polar exploration aircraft of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic expedition. The aircraft had...
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choosing to portage over Banks Island. Members of the Franklin expedition crossed the southern shore of King William Island and made it onto the Canadian...
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North" expedition, 1893–96. Pollux was sold to the Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink in 1897 and renamed Southern Cross, for the Southern Cross Expedition...
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Crux (redirect from Southern cross)
of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern end of...
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list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized...
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Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (category Antarctic expeditions)
surgeon on the Southern Cross Expedition, 1898–1900, died of unrecorded causes during 1900. Jorgen Petersen, first mate on the Southern Cross, died in 1900...
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Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres (230.5 miles) east of state capital Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded in...
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be first to reach the South Pole. This was not attained, but the expedition's southern march reached a Farthest South latitude of 88° 23' S, just 97.5...
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mainland. This achievement helped him to obtain backing for his Southern Cross expedition, which became the first to overwinter on the Antarctic mainland...
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ornithological specimens. The expedition arrived back in England on 4 September 1843, having confirmed the existence of the southern continent and charted a...
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expedition members survived after an epic journey on sledges over pack ice to Elephant Island. Then Shackleton and five others crossed the Southern Ocean...
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Louis Bernacchi (category Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States))
Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898–1900) which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in Christchurch, New Zealand...
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northern party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1965–66. The Southern Cross Mountains extend north from Burns Glacier, with the...
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murdered by mutineering expedition members 1725–1730: Vitus Bering leads the First Kamchatka expedition 1728: Claus Paarss attempts to cross Greenland's interior...
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re-established his Canadian citizenship. The expedition was divided into a Northern Party led by Stefansson, and a Southern Party led by R M. Anderson. The objective...
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participated in that landing, took his own expedition to the region, in the Southern Cross. This expedition was financed by a donation of £35,000 from...
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program, 1967–79, and was named after the Southern Cross, the expedition ship of British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, led by Carsten Borchgrevink....
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Antarctic Expedition may refer to: British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900, also known as the Southern Cross Expedition British Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04...
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First Mass in the Philippines (category Magellan expedition)
in Limasawa and Saub Point in Triana as the site of the cross planted by the Magellan expedition. Potenciano R. Malvar, the chair of the Butuan Calagan...
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expedition had narrowly failed to reach the Pole. Starting from a base close to Scott's Discovery anchorage in McMurdo Sound, Shackleton had crossed the...
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the temporary shelter of Hut Point, a relic of the Discovery Expedition at the southern end of McMurdo Sound, where they slowly recovered. On 8 May 1916...
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traverse the Prince of Wales Strait. Instead, the expedition did a portage across Banks Island, crossed the Banks Strait, Melville Sound, Barrow Strait...
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Richard E. Byrd (redirect from Byrd Antarctic Expedition)
logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment...
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great pioneering expedition of oceanography. The expedition also verified the existence of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge extending from the southern hemisphere to...
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Voyage of the James Caird (category Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition)
crew and boat reached the southern coast of South Georgia after a 17-day voyage. Shackleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley crossed the island's mountains to...
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It was at this point that Richardson crossed into territory already mapped during Franklin's previous expedition. The party reached the mouth of the Coppermine...
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Drake Passage (redirect from Southern passage)
Horn) Garcia de Nodal expedition Bransfield Strait Sars Bank Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation "6 men become 1st to cross perilous Drake Passage...
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The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 (a.k.a. the Greely Expedition) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by...
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